Pages: 301-314 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp264301314

This article analyses finds from a group of domestic pits of the Kyiv culture at the Latyshevka-2 settlement on the southern outskirts of Putyvl. In pits nos. 2 and 3, fragments of three upper millstones made of volcanic tuff with subrectangular and round central apertures were found. Pits nos. 1–3 have similar depths (0.3–0.5 m), which distinguishes them from the typical, deeper domestic pits of the Kyiv culture excavated at the Latyshevka-2 settlement. The pit complex (nos. 1–3) is interpreted as a mill with hand millstones placed in a light above-ground building (a hut or shed). Millstones made of volcanic tuff were produced within the area occupied by Chernyakhov culture sites, in quarries and probably in workshops associated with them, located along the Southern Buh River. Tuff millstones from sites of the Desna variant of the Kyiv culture are dated to the mid-4th to the beginning (first half?) of the 5th century AD.

Keywords: Dnieper forest-steppe Left Bank, Seym river basin, Kyiv culture, millstones made of volcanic tuff, hand mills

Information about authors:

Viktor Рriymak (Sumy, Ukraine). Historical and Cultural Reserve “Bilsk” at the Poltava Regional Council. Pokrovska St., 13, Коtelva township, 38600, Poltava oblast, Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0009-0004-8740-2252

Dmitriy Sapozhnikov (1969—2012). Graduate of the Faculty of History, Voronezh State University.